Filtering HTML e-mail: WAS: BUG: spinlock recursion

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Fri Apr 7 17:50:57 UTC 2006


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Mike McCarty wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
>>
>>I filter html to the bit bucket.
> 
> I'd like to do the same. I use thunderbird, but I see no way to build
> a filter to do that. Would you tell me how you do it?

I don't use Thunderbird, but here's what I'd try it after taking a
look at the filter setup.  (Thunderbird 1.0.7 from FC4.)

In Message Filters, select Customize at the bottom of the field match
dropdown.  Add Content-Type.  Then set a match for text/html and
choose an appropriate action.  Moving it to the Trash folder looks
like a good choice, though I'd be curious how the "Delete from POP
server option works.  If it deletes before downloading and you use
POP, that'd be a nice option to kill all straight html messages.

Please do post here if you find a good way to do this, as I'll keep it
in mind for some of my Thunderbird using friends.

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